I find this incredibly helpful. Any tool that can track and record our daily activities reduces cognitive load. I wonder if there’s a feature where we can integrate some of these projects and automatically index them? I believe you mentioned that you could do that, Daria.
Not sure if I'm answering your question in full, but right now, Cluing has AI suggestions in a few places to help with sorting the information when saving/when you've saved it into your inbox.
With our next update, we're adding the option to have our AI chat do the sorting for you, too :)
That’s amazing! My thoughts live in scattered places and tracking what belongs where based on what I’m working on would be nice to have. I’ve got to give it a try and prob many of my answers will get answered. :)
Yes, our idea is to make it as easy as possible to capture the thinking of why something was important to you, help you sort it, and then reuse it whenever needed.
Feel free to check in, if you have any more questions once you try it 😄
The auto-index dream runs into a brutal cost curve. Embedding every saved doc into a vector store sounds clean until you hit the retrieval problem: semantic search finds 20 loosely related notes when you wanted the one. Readwise Reader solved half of this by auto-tagging highlights with GPT, but the indexing that actually works is still the indexing you do by hand at capture time.
This is so cool Daria! I wonder if Cluing would also think to naturally look to Substack for research natively? As these days it is where I get most of my good ideas from! 🙏
You can already use our browser extension on Substack (both saving and locating work great) to save the highlights, or you can forward the entire email to a topic of your choosing.
The first one works best if you want to just save a sentence or two, and the second works best when you want to save the entire email for future use (like using our AI chat to chat with all your favourite emails on a certain topic you received in the past few months).
That is awesome Sandra. Congrats on a fantastic product as well. I really trust Daria and she has done an awesome job of putting Cluing through its paces here. 💪💪
Thanks so much, Sam, I appreciate you. Cluing is great for research work, I'm sure you'll find it useful. I'm super obsessed with the highlighting feature on PDFs & web pages. Before this, every time I saved a link I had to reread most of the page to find the part I was interested about.
This is great! I just installed it and will play around with the free version for now, but I'm sure it won't take long before I upgrade :) I have 2 main questions:
1. I actually find a lot of useful video content on Instagram or TikTok - reels that I save for later (and then they got lost in the sea of stuff that I saved). I see I can share Instagram reels with Cluing, but then once the app opens, nothing happens. Is this a bug or just not supported (yet)?
2. When I'm reading web pages on my mobile, sometimes I also like to select text. I see there's a way to share it with Cluing, but the app doesn't even seem to open. Can I only share full links from mobile browsing session with Cluing rather than text snippets?
Probably questions for Sandra to answer, but it would be great if she could because I've been dying to use an app like this (and am happy to test it too!)
1. We've recently released an integration with TikTok that makes it so we can scrape the description and cover image. We'll be doing it for Instagram soon, but there is an additional approval process we have to go through to fully enable it.
2. For mobile, there are a few ways you can use Cluing.
On Edge and Firefox, you can get our extension that works similarly to the desktop one. Chrome has still not made browser extensions available, unfortunately.
Highlighting a piece of text and sharing it with the app is the second one. I've tested it now on Chrome, and it worked for me, but we're still working on improving our scrapers. If you have a minute, please send over the browser and website where it was giving you trouble. We're working on improving the apps as we speak 😄
The third way is to scrape the page with our reader (on both apps and desktop). This works for most blogs and articles and gives you and add free, distraction free reading space. You can add snippets the same way you would to a PDF, and we still locate them on the original live source if available. Saving the whole page like this also makes sure you have access to the full page anytime, even if it gets taken down.
Thanks a lot 😁 I’ll test it with Tiktok then. For Instagram I’m already happy with just being able to save the videos, although there still seems to be an issue with just sharing directly from the Instagram app to Cluing. I now have to copy the link and then paste it in Cluing (which is a bit of a workaround but fine for now).
As for the text I was trying to select on my chrome browser on mobile, it now works like a charm. Not sure what went wrong before 😅 love the product!
I love the implementation of the PARA method here. I've actually been building out my own custom AI second brain using my Hermes agent and Hindsight, with Obsidian acting as the central glue that connects all the different models and agents I use.
Cluing looks like a fantastic out-of-the-box solution for people who don't want to mess with APIs and Python scripts, maybe I'll give it a try as I switched from Honcho a little while ago.
Out of curiosity, does Cluing allow for much customization when it comes to how the AI retrieves and synthesizes the information?
That’s a very advanced setup you had there, curious what made you switch? always interesting to hear what worked and what didn’t, I’ve got quite a few of those in my own “portfolio” too :))
As for Cluing, at the moment you can choose which projects / areas / resources you want to include when using Cluing AI, so you have control over what it pulls from.
I switched because the self hosted version of Honcho was a pain to configure compared to Hindsight. Can't say I noticed any degrade in quality or speed.
Has anyone used Cluing and the Readwise/Reader ecosystem? Seems to be a lot of overlap in what they do so I'm wondering where the differences lie and the strengths and weaknesses of Cluing vs Readwise?
Hey Chris, I haven't used Readwise so I can't compare from experience, but Cluing has a free plan, so you could try it alongside to see how they compare maybe?
I haven't used Readwise in a bit, but at the time, the key difference was that Cluing had the option to be collaborative, attach your own comments, and that you could collect insights from social media in a way that makes them locatable in the future (like a Reddit thread or LinkedIn post).
Also, not a hundred percent sure, but I don't think you can switch AI models for different tasks in Readwise.
They definitely have a better reading experience for books, tho 😄
Week 2 is the optimistic case. Around week 6, capture volume tends to outpace retrieval, and a second brain starts hallucinating its own importance back at you. Tools that survive that wall enforce pruning, not just capture.
I find this incredibly helpful. Any tool that can track and record our daily activities reduces cognitive load. I wonder if there’s a feature where we can integrate some of these projects and automatically index them? I believe you mentioned that you could do that, Daria.
Not sure if I'm answering your question in full, but right now, Cluing has AI suggestions in a few places to help with sorting the information when saving/when you've saved it into your inbox.
With our next update, we're adding the option to have our AI chat do the sorting for you, too :)
That’s amazing! My thoughts live in scattered places and tracking what belongs where based on what I’m working on would be nice to have. I’ve got to give it a try and prob many of my answers will get answered. :)
Yes, our idea is to make it as easy as possible to capture the thinking of why something was important to you, help you sort it, and then reuse it whenever needed.
Feel free to check in, if you have any more questions once you try it 😄
The auto-index dream runs into a brutal cost curve. Embedding every saved doc into a vector store sounds clean until you hit the retrieval problem: semantic search finds 20 loosely related notes when you wanted the one. Readwise Reader solved half of this by auto-tagging highlights with GPT, but the indexing that actually works is still the indexing you do by hand at capture time.
Daria, Thank you. I shall use Cluing today and let you know. Best regards/ds
Hey Seetharam, can't wait to hear your thoughts on it.
This is so cool Daria! I wonder if Cluing would also think to naturally look to Substack for research natively? As these days it is where I get most of my good ideas from! 🙏
Hey Sam,
Sandra, the founder of Cluing here 😄
You can already use our browser extension on Substack (both saving and locating work great) to save the highlights, or you can forward the entire email to a topic of your choosing.
The first one works best if you want to just save a sentence or two, and the second works best when you want to save the entire email for future use (like using our AI chat to chat with all your favourite emails on a certain topic you received in the past few months).
That is awesome Sandra. Congrats on a fantastic product as well. I really trust Daria and she has done an awesome job of putting Cluing through its paces here. 💪💪
Thanks so much, Sam, I appreciate you. Cluing is great for research work, I'm sure you'll find it useful. I'm super obsessed with the highlighting feature on PDFs & web pages. Before this, every time I saved a link I had to reread most of the page to find the part I was interested about.
Thank you, Sam!
Would love to hear your thoughts too if you decide to test it out yourself 😊
This is great! I just installed it and will play around with the free version for now, but I'm sure it won't take long before I upgrade :) I have 2 main questions:
1. I actually find a lot of useful video content on Instagram or TikTok - reels that I save for later (and then they got lost in the sea of stuff that I saved). I see I can share Instagram reels with Cluing, but then once the app opens, nothing happens. Is this a bug or just not supported (yet)?
2. When I'm reading web pages on my mobile, sometimes I also like to select text. I see there's a way to share it with Cluing, but the app doesn't even seem to open. Can I only share full links from mobile browsing session with Cluing rather than text snippets?
Probably questions for Sandra to answer, but it would be great if she could because I've been dying to use an app like this (and am happy to test it too!)
Hey Xuannhien,
Thank you for checking out Cluing 😄
1. We've recently released an integration with TikTok that makes it so we can scrape the description and cover image. We'll be doing it for Instagram soon, but there is an additional approval process we have to go through to fully enable it.
2. For mobile, there are a few ways you can use Cluing.
On Edge and Firefox, you can get our extension that works similarly to the desktop one. Chrome has still not made browser extensions available, unfortunately.
Highlighting a piece of text and sharing it with the app is the second one. I've tested it now on Chrome, and it worked for me, but we're still working on improving our scrapers. If you have a minute, please send over the browser and website where it was giving you trouble. We're working on improving the apps as we speak 😄
The third way is to scrape the page with our reader (on both apps and desktop). This works for most blogs and articles and gives you and add free, distraction free reading space. You can add snippets the same way you would to a PDF, and we still locate them on the original live source if available. Saving the whole page like this also makes sure you have access to the full page anytime, even if it gets taken down.
Feel free to ping me if anything else pops up 😊
Hi Sandra!
Thanks a lot 😁 I’ll test it with Tiktok then. For Instagram I’m already happy with just being able to save the videos, although there still seems to be an issue with just sharing directly from the Instagram app to Cluing. I now have to copy the link and then paste it in Cluing (which is a bit of a workaround but fine for now).
As for the text I was trying to select on my chrome browser on mobile, it now works like a charm. Not sure what went wrong before 😅 love the product!
I love the implementation of the PARA method here. I've actually been building out my own custom AI second brain using my Hermes agent and Hindsight, with Obsidian acting as the central glue that connects all the different models and agents I use.
Cluing looks like a fantastic out-of-the-box solution for people who don't want to mess with APIs and Python scripts, maybe I'll give it a try as I switched from Honcho a little while ago.
Out of curiosity, does Cluing allow for much customization when it comes to how the AI retrieves and synthesizes the information?
That’s a very advanced setup you had there, curious what made you switch? always interesting to hear what worked and what didn’t, I’ve got quite a few of those in my own “portfolio” too :))
As for Cluing, at the moment you can choose which projects / areas / resources you want to include when using Cluing AI, so you have control over what it pulls from.
I switched because the self hosted version of Honcho was a pain to configure compared to Hindsight. Can't say I noticed any degrade in quality or speed.
You can choose which segment of information to use as well as which AI model to use for the task.
For example, you can use GPT-5.2 for additional research, switch to Claude for writing, and then to some other model for final fact-checking.
Has anyone used Cluing and the Readwise/Reader ecosystem? Seems to be a lot of overlap in what they do so I'm wondering where the differences lie and the strengths and weaknesses of Cluing vs Readwise?
Hey Chris, I haven't used Readwise so I can't compare from experience, but Cluing has a free plan, so you could try it alongside to see how they compare maybe?
I haven't used Readwise in a bit, but at the time, the key difference was that Cluing had the option to be collaborative, attach your own comments, and that you could collect insights from social media in a way that makes them locatable in the future (like a Reddit thread or LinkedIn post).
Also, not a hundred percent sure, but I don't think you can switch AI models for different tasks in Readwise.
They definitely have a better reading experience for books, tho 😄
You didn’t mention if it works with video. I find that a lot of video doesn’t have transcription and I don’t always have time to take decent notes.
We work with YouTube in the sense that you can grab either a time-stamped screengrab or save a segment of the transcript.
Are you thinking something like our PDF reader, but for video?
I use Recall since 2 years for this purpose and they recently added a MCP, so I finally got the connection to Claude.
The payoff: By week 2, you're having creative conversations with Claude that assume your full context—no more "here's my premise again..."
At least, I hope that's the payoff.
Week 2 is the optimistic case. Around week 6, capture volume tends to outpace retrieval, and a second brain starts hallucinating its own importance back at you. Tools that survive that wall enforce pruning, not just capture.
Most systems break because they add more work than they remove.